Barclays·Software Engineer

Barclays Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Easy

Negative

London, EnglandPosted Feb 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I went through an on-site interview where the conversation stayed close to my experience—things like Python, plus a quick, fizzbuzz-style coding question early on.

After that first stage, I was supposed to move to a second and final stage.

What threw me off was a scheduling mix-up: my recruiter accidentally booked me for a virtual interview even though it was meant to be in person. That mismatch created an awkward flow, and I felt like I was being pulled into the wrong format at the worst possible time. I didn’t get to finish in the way I expected, and the job apparently went to someone else.

The experience was marked less by the technical difficulty and more by how the process was handled. Looking back, the hardest part for me wasn’t the content—it

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